Yeah, me too. About writing summaries and about that feeling of having learned something being deceiving. I wonder if the latter is something that has been formally studied at all.
As for writing summaries, it’s something I am hoping to do a lot more of (on top of my desire to write more in a more general sense). I’m planning on writing summaries of the Rationality from AI to Zombies books. Doing so seems like a low hanging fruit that few rationalists have plucked.
I don’t know about formality, but Scott Young has frequently talks about the “Feynman technique” (writing summary as a way to learn) as a way to study.
please do that and post your results here! That seems like an incredible use of time, and a potentially excellent resource for the rationalist community
Yeah, me too. About writing summaries and about that feeling of having learned something being deceiving. I wonder if the latter is something that has been formally studied at all.
As for writing summaries, it’s something I am hoping to do a lot more of (on top of my desire to write more in a more general sense). I’m planning on writing summaries of the Rationality from AI to Zombies books. Doing so seems like a low hanging fruit that few rationalists have plucked.
I don’t know about formality, but Scott Young has frequently talks about the “Feynman technique” (writing summary as a way to learn) as a way to study.
please do that and post your results here! That seems like an incredible use of time, and a potentially excellent resource for the rationalist community
Just posted Map and Territory: Summary and Thoughts.
Reading through it now, thank you for the excellent work!
Thanks for the compliment :)
Thanks! I plan on writing it as a separate post.